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In the history of medicine, there are few instances in which a disease has been more accurately, more graphically or more briefly described.
One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.
Aequanimitas (1889)
Faith is indeed one of the miracles of human nature which science is as ready to accept as it is to study its marvellous effects.
The Faith that Heals (1910)
A man must have faith in himself to be of any use in the world.
The Faith that Heals (1910)
Creeds pass, an inexhaustible supply of faith remains, with which man proceeds to rebuild temples, churches, chapels and shrines.
The Faith that Heals (1910)
In a true and perfect form, imperturbability is indissolubly associated with wide experience and an intimate knowledge of the varied aspects of disease.
Aequanimitas (1889)
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.
All the more honour to those who have with honest effort striven to pierce the veil and explore the mysteries which lie behind it.
Science and Immortality (1904)
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962)
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
Literature is full of examples of remarkable cures through the influence of the imagination, which is only an active phase of faith.
The Faith that Heals (1910)
Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science.
We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succession.
Chauvinism in Medicine (1902)
Nationalism has been the great curse of humanity. In no other shape has the Demon of Ignorance assumed more hideous proportions; to no other obsession do we yield ourselves more readily.
Chauvinism in Medicine (1902)
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
The Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
And the master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts and bind it upon your foreheads.
The Master-Word In Medicine (1903)
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
On the Educational Value of the Medical Society (1903)
To it more than anything else I owe whatever success I have had — to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it well to the best of my ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
Whether across death's threshold we step from life to life, or whether we go whence we shall not return, even to the land of darkness, as darkness itself, he cannot tell.
Science and Immortality (1904)